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by montagg 1y ago
It can be good anyway. It’s a solid movie. If a young person doesn’t like it, that’s fine, but I shit you not, your feelings about that movie are not just nostalgia. It’s executed very well.
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by montagg 1y ago
I know this sequel doesn’t exist. I know that when I watch it, the Matrix is telling my brain that it is juicy and delicious. After 26 years, you know what I realize? Ignorance is bliss.
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by montagg 1y ago
I think you’re describing the principle/agent problem that people have wrestled with forever. Oppenheimer comes to mind. You make something, but because you don’t own it—others caused and directed the effort—you don’t control it. But t
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by montagg 1y ago
Someone needs to play Metal Gear Solid 2.
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by montagg 1y ago
They become the “real words” later. This is the way all trust & safety works. It’s an evolution over time. Adding some friction does improve things, but some people will always try to get around the filters. Doesn’t mean it’s simply p
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by montagg 1y ago
Most people are intimidated by airplane cockpits. I think you’re right that specialists in certain situations where they’re familiar have much higher tolerance for visual density because, to them, it isn’t dense, it’s meaningful. Most peopl
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by montagg 1y ago
The “do your own research” types end up with some of the biggest groupthink I’ve ever seen though.
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by montagg 1y ago
“Cook chose poorly.” https://www.theverge.com/apple/659296/apple-failed-complianc... I think Cook’s time as CEO will be remembered both by enabling massive scale for the most successful consumer product in history
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by montagg 1y ago
It's the second coming of Frutger Aero[1] [1]: https://aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/Frutiger_Aero
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by montagg 1y ago
Wait. Sync is “free” if you want to use some other service other than Obsidian’s. I pay for Obsidian sync partially for slightly more convenience (fewer non-integrated points of failure) and also to support the app itself. I’d gladly pay $1
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by montagg 1y ago
You’re talking both about tastemakers and the silent majority vs loud minority. I promise it is NOT always a good idea to follow the enthusiasts, because they are not at all like everyone else who uses your thing. Following them will skew y
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by montagg 2y ago
Hopefully we never get there. But America should suffer no kings.
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by montagg 2y ago
> This presumes these folks had that part to lose. Based on all available evidence, I don’t believe they had the empathy, compassion, or emotional health in the first place. Even after climbing the mountain, they can’t stop, they can’t h
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by montagg 2y ago
The money itself also isolates them and makes them more likely to become psychopaths, imo. It's a positive feedback loop on whatever differences allowed them to obtain that wealth, and those personality features eventually metastasize.
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by montagg 2y ago
Just posted this exact thing and deleted it. Your’s is better.
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by montagg 2y ago
As someone who’s seen the inside of a game company, this thesis reads true. Success really warps expectations, and warped expectations create perverse incentives that are different than make this particular game good.
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by montagg 2y ago
They are when you can regulate the crap out of them to benefit everyone after they’ve benefited from government contracts, FCC governance, an educated population, etc.
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by montagg 2y ago
Freedom isn't free. It costs lawyer fees at least.
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by montagg 2y ago
But if you can do that, you know you have plenty of time for a civilization to develop on the other end to listen. Might just not be us.
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by montagg 2y ago
Maybe this isn't something you believe, but actual adults can have different opinions and then choose not to associate with one another. There's nothing childish about that. Help me understand, though: what are you actually propos
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by montagg 2y ago
Ship just before you feel it’s perfectly ready is how I do it. Your instincts are tuned to protect you, and you have to be willing to thank them for their input but ship anyway to prioritize learning by doing. But this is not shipping thing
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by montagg 2y ago
You may believe that, but American conservatives do not: > “If transgenderism is false—as it is—if men really can’t become women—as they cannot—then it’s false for everyone,” the Daily Wire’s Michael Knowles said at CPAC. “If it is false
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by montagg 2y ago
I'm just going to choose peace today and say: the SpaceX engineers who've been at this forever and have shown that crazy stuff is actually possible are seriously amazing humans, and I do hope they are successful.
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by montagg 2y ago
The big picture still is what it is. Americans want a king. You can get into the more nuanced weeds and there is plenty more nuance there, but the overarching dynamic is people made a tradeoff, and they chose a king.
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by montagg 2y ago
That's very likely. One of the proposals in Project 2025 is to defund NOAA. https://www.axios.com/2024/07/20/project-2025-trump-what-to-...
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by montagg 2y ago
Yes. In my opinion, it's clearly been a wasted effort to try to convince the rest of the country those rights are important. They need to be defended where they can, and the states that defend them need to separate themselves more and
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by montagg 2y ago
To be fair, it’s not half, and it’s shrinking. Best bet is to find a way to build up states that can defend those rights and concentrate people there. In response to the evisceration of the federal government, set up equivalent agencies in
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by montagg 2y ago
> The alternative was conceding the space to cheaters and watching games that players love, and that required massive resources to develop and maintain, degenerate into a hellscape of cheating that real players refuse to play. This was a
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by montagg 2y ago
Executive brain worms are real. They see each other do things, and they want to be like each other, so they feel safety in numbers, untethered to the data. My company only stopped a strict company-wide RTO when they saw how much senior tale
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by montagg 2y ago
"Unlock."

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